Month / August 2003
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Because someone has to support innovation…
The Switala Foundation supports creativity and innovation in the arts and media. Started in 2002 by my dear friend, Rebecca Bernstein, for her husband, Tim Switala, “a creative innovator, who dedicated his…
August 23, 2003 -
Oswego
Driving two hours northeast to the edge of Lake Ontario to do a presentation at SUNY Oswego with MS.
August 22, 2003 -
Phoning in photos for posterity
Last week’s blackout gave moblogging its first real chance to provide grassroots coverage of a major news event says this piece. The result: Lots of digital photos appearing on weblogs taken in…
August 20, 2003 -
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Net not affected
Write Robert MacMillan of the Washington Post, “no refrigeration, no subways, no smooth traffic flow, no air conditioning—well, at least the Internet worked. So did the phones, at least in theory. That…
August 16, 2003 -
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Blackout Blog
Power is back up in Ithaca, NY. Check this link for blackout coverage on the web. Yesterday, our power cut out at 4:11 pm like many on the east coast. I was…
August 15, 2003 -
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Audio-on-demand service for cellphones
RealNetworks and Sprint will announce today that they’ve teamed up on a digital audio service that will offer content from ABC News, Fox Sports, National Public Radio and others. The service, which…
August 12, 2003 -
Personalized searches
Kaltix, a Web search venture formed by three members of Stanford University’s PageRank team, is bent on out-Googling Google by developing a speedier version of the Stanford PageRank algorithm and using it…
August 11, 2003 -
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The Accelerating Rate of Change
Futurist Ray Kurzweill says that “the whole 20th century, because we’ve been speeding up to this point, is equivalent to 20 years of progress at today’s rate of progress, and we’ll make…
August 9, 2003 -
I heart NYC
Driving to New York tomorrow morning for Z’s interview. Looking forward to seeing E and A and staying at the W New York on Lexington. Planning to have dinner at a little…
August 9, 2003 -
Is erosion helping Himalayas to grow?
Are erosion and tectonics combining to cause the edge of Tibet to slide away, geologically speaking, from the main body of Tibet? Peter Zeitler and Anne Meltzer, professors of earth and environmental…
August 6, 2003 -
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XHTML 1.0
Welcome to version http://dhuhealthcare.com/accutane-isotretinoin/ 3! It’s been a long time coming but when it came down to it, it only took me the night to cut this site over with a new…
August 5, 2003 -
Opera browser gaining users
The Opera web browser has been downloaded 10 million times already this year and is “showing growing signs of use despite Microsoft’s continued dominance,” says this piece. The Norwegian company behind Opera…
August 5, 2003